faster payments

Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a UK banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts from the three working days that transfers take using the long-established BACS system, to typically a few seconds.

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Fed Study Shows B2B Payments Are Becoming a Cost-Per-Event Problem
Fed Study Shows B2B Payments Are Becoming a Cost-Per-Event Problem
July 09, 2026  |  B2B Payments

The Federal Reserve confirmed this month that digital payments are winning the modernization battle against paper-based ones. For finance teams participating in the ecosystem’s ongoing...

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Government Disbursements Open New Paths to Financial Inclusion
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July 09, 2026  |  Financial Inclusion

Government payments rarely get discussed as financial infrastructure. They’re usually treated as administrative outputs. Benefits are approved, refunds are issued and claims are processed. For...

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Payments friction has acquired a price tag. For many finance leaders, delays caused by fraud controls, manual reviews and disconnected payments systems are not confined...

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Insurers Find a Loyalty Test in Every Premium Payment
July 07, 2026  |  Insurance

Watch more: Need to Know With One Inc’s Colin Zalewski For millions of drivers, paying an auto insurance bill is one of the most common...

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Liquidity Management Becomes the Next Test for Real-Time Payments
Liquidity Management Becomes the Next Test for Real-Time Payments
June 30, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Real-time payment networks have changed the speed at which money moves. The greater challenge now lies in ensuring institutions can support that movement without creating...

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Faster Payments Give AR Teams Less Time to Be Wrong
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June 15, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

For decades, accounts receivable has operated on the assumption that there would be time to fix mistakes after money moved. But as instant and near-instant...

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Bank of America Says Checks Are Slowing Treasury Down
Bank of America Says Checks Are Slowing Treasury Down
June 08, 2026  |  Disbursements

Watch more: Need to Know With Bank of America’s Irfan Ahmad For treasury executives, B2C payments have shifted from a settlement exercise to a customer...

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Bank of America to Debut X-Border Real-Time Payments Tool
Bank of America to Debut X-Border Real-Time Payments Tool
June 04, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Bank of America plans to launch a new cross-border real-time payments tool later this year, according to a Thursday (June 4) press release provided to...

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72% of Consumers Pay for Instant Income Access
72% of Consumers Pay for Instant Income Access
June 04, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Instant payments are increasingly being judged less by how fast money moves and more by what faster access allows consumers to do. That is the...

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